Is creating false guilt for profit by religions a good moral

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06 Apr 2015, 11:16 am

AspieUtah wrote:

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I agree with the spirit of you post but not the reality.

No church should profit like the ones we have, I agree, but a church that gives good service to the community should profit enough to expand or create branches to increase those good works.

But yes, they should have simple cups for their wine and not gold chalices.

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That is exactly what many home churches (and other anti-nonprofit churches) do. They budget carefully to pay their bills, and fund-raise just enough to do that and expand if necessary or desired. It's a cool little trick that some churches learned a few years ago during the IRS scandal over auditing conventionally nonprofit churches' involvement in politics or government. They learned that they could (and should) avoid becoming nonprofit because that comes with legal strings attached. And, the way to avoid nonprofit status is to remain legally for-profit. But, the way to avoid taxes for any for-profit corporation is to budget income and expenses carefully so that the net profits are near zero.

In my opinion, if a church is willing to do all that for the sake of remaining independent of government and big contributors, they probably run a tight ship, church-wise. Good on them.

Indeed.

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06 Apr 2015, 5:54 pm

The reason "guilt" started is people were being indolent and abusive and not getting their work done so someone comes along and starts bringing God into it to get them to do their work instead of being indolent and lustful all the time. It's to broaden people's activities so they are doing more than just sitting around indulging themselves.

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08 Apr 2015, 10:19 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:

Possibly but I do not think so. Remember the harshness of living where resources were scarce and life hard.
In that day, if you did not work you would likely starve unless in the upper class.

You might remember that churches competed for adherents for the cash they would bring into the temples and the biggest God with the biggest carrot and stick, to use against others of course, would have been a plus for that religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7BHvN6rZZA

Religions have always lied to us for profit.

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08 Apr 2015, 11:14 pm

That's a great video, Gnostic Bishop that every Christian should watch to finally
get a short 3 minutes and 16 seconds that truly tells the tale of what
is reported of the SO-CALLED REAL HISTORICAL
GNOSTIC WORDS OF JESUS.

TRUTH IS TRUTH.
LIGHT IS TRUTH.
TRUTH IS LIGHT.
LIGHT IS LIGHT.

It truly doesn't get any better
than THAT video
for TRUEST Christian
ideology, in TRUTH AND LIGHT..

Just a note, if you want to link the videos
directly here like I did above, you can apply
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you will have to delete the S character from
'HTTPS' to make it work, if you care to do
that..

AND YES, guilt is mainstay of all
psychopathic leaning
OCCUPATIONS where oppression,
repression, and subjugation
through illusory fears
like guilt AGAINST fuller expressing human
senses and emotions in much greater physical intelligence
AGAINST much greater human potential weakens humans for
CONTROL, instead of allowing humans to reach their fuller
POTENTIAL
and 'huMANiFEST' more fully the natural power of GOD within,
outside, above so below, and all around the Universe 'they'
perceive as real as a human nature working with the
GOD of Nature, instead of against, in a rule
of human tyranny, per religion or state.

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10 Apr 2015, 2:21 pm

aghogday wrote:

Just a note, if you want to link the videos
directly here like I did above, you can apply
the youtube function button in the menu but
you will have to delete the S character from
'HTTPS' to make it work, if you care to do
that..

AND YES, guilt is mainstay of all
psychopathic leaning
OCCUPATIONS where oppression,
repression, and subjugation
through illusory fears
like guilt AGAINST fuller expressing human
senses and emotions in much greater physical intelligence
AGAINST much greater human potential weakens humans for
CONTROL, instead of allowing humans to reach their fuller
POTENTIAL
and 'huMANiFEST' more fully the natural power of GOD within,
outside, above so below, and all around the Universe 'they'
perceive as real as a human nature working with the
GOD of Nature, instead of against, in a rule
of human tyranny, per religion or state.

Thanks for this.

It should be obvious to all that the last thing a church or mosque wants is for adherents to reach their full potential.

When any do, they will leave their church if they cannot bring it to a better way of thinking and acting.

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DL

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10 Apr 2015, 10:17 pm

^^^

You're welcome..

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